[clue-tech] recursive grep

[ErikZ]

Is there a way to pre-filter out all the binary files? Before grep gets to them?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
> It wouldn't be much of a race. 'grep' without 'find' never finishes. I think it's following upward symlinks.
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> ----- "Greg Knaddison" <Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com> wrote:
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>> I believe that adding find into the mix can make the process slower
>> than grep, unless you are using find to exclude some files.
>>
>> It would be interesting to benchmark them.
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>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Clayton Fast
>> <cfast at compassbilling.com> wrote:
>> > find . -exec grep -l text-i-want-find {} \;
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>> > Subject: [clue-tech] recursive grep
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>> > Does anyone have a good idea for "find absolutely every file in
>> haystack/,
>> > that mentions needle"?
>> >
>> > "grep -R needle /etc/*" and "grep -R needle /var/*"seem to run
>> forever.
>> >
>> > I think it's a "find /etc -xtype f -exec grep ... something, but I
>> can't
>> > think of the right something.
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